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The 'Noordeinde' palace in The Hague.
Residence of Louis-Napoléon and the dutch kings
In this form designed by the architects
Pieter Post and Jacob van Campen
Aerial view of the 'Noordeinde' palace.
In the blown up view, the white arrow
indicates the house where Jacob
and Edith Janzen lived around 1970.
The garden of the 'Noordeinde' palace around 1820.
The era of the painters Van Vugt at the court.
Jean-Baptiste Scheffer worked there until around 1809.
'Kneuterdijk' Palace, preferred by king Willem II,
at some hundreds metres from the 'Noordeinde' palace
.
'The Gothic Hall', designed by king Willem II,
where he exhibited his vast collection of paintings.
(10 aug 1850)
Willem of Orange arrives in The Hague after his
exil in England (30 nov 1813). The day after, he shall be crowned
(king Willem I).
During the winter he uses the 'Noordeinde'palace,
in summertime he uses Palace "'t Loo".
He continues to employ three members of the Van Vugt Family, who already
worked at the 'Noordeinde' palace for his adversary,
king Louis-Napoléon.
What's more, he awards their father a distinction of the order of the
'Brotherhood of the Dutch Lion', and gives him a lower job
in the administration of the newly restaured government.
All that for a reason which is still unknown.
Spying for the dutch king at the court of Louis-Napoléon
is one of the possibilities. The Van Vugt family will work at the dutch
court for a number of generations,
as a servant/houshold staff but also as artists.
The marry among other families at the court, like the Avink,
the Du Chatinier, the Rousseau-Ducroissi and probably the family of the
artists/painters Scheffer.
Hortense de Beauharnais (by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson), daughter of Napoléon I, wife of Louis-Napoléon
.
Here-below a representation of the life at the court:
, as well as the numbered links 
are clickable.